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		<id>https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Valedictorian&amp;diff=46477</id>
		<title>Valedictorian</title>
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		<updated>2013-05-25T01:25:40Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;The &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Valedictorian&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; of [[Columbia College]] is selected each year by the faculty [[Committee on Honors, Awards, and Prizes]] each year along with the [[Salutatorian]]. While Valedictorian is nominally the higher honor, at Columbia College only the Salutatorian gets to deliver a speech at [[Class Day]]. The Valedictorian gets to sit on stage and smile.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Each year COHAP identifies no more than 15 students with GPAs over 4.00 on the basis of the &amp;quot;strength, breadth, depth, and rigor of the student&amp;#039;s academic achievements as well as on evidence of the student&amp;#039;s intellectual promise, character, and achievement outside the classroom.&amp;quot; Following the identification of this cohort, the departments in which the students majored are contacted and asked to submit evaluations of the identified students, which are used by the committee in selecting the winners.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For a period, [[Rabi Scholars]] dominated the Valedictorian competition, having been selected as the Val in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007. This may have been a result of their tendency to be among the brightest science students accepted to Columbia (and therefore likely to take advantage of the GPA bias inherent in the hard sciences, where top students earn A+s, a grade typically not awarded by professors in &amp;#039;softer&amp;#039; disciplines), the close relationship with faculty that the scholars typically enjoy, or a combination of the two.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The overwhelming next move for valedictorians in the last decade has been a [[PhD]], with every valedictorian since at least 2002 earning or having earned one.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Because the qualifications for it are virtually synonymous, valedictorians usually also receive the [[Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Valedictorians of [[Columbia College]]==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2013]] - [[Leah Friedman]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]] - [[Zachary Brill]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]] - [[Margot Lazow]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2010]] - [[Arianne Richard]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2009]] - [[Emily Clader]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2008]] - [[Maxim Pinkovskiy]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2007]] - [[Claire Lackner]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2006]] - [[Jaehee Kim]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2005]] - [[Ramsey McGlazer]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2004]] - [[Jacob Barandes]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2003]] - [[Max Lipyanskiy]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2002]] - [[Kareen Rozen]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2000]] - [[Brandon Dammerman]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1999]] - [[Joyce Marie Kassouf]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1998]] - [[Zita Peterlin]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1996]] - [[Elena Khazanova]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1992]] - [[Scott Feldman]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1991]] - [[David Brafman]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1989]] - [[Shai Shaham]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1988]] - [[Sherry F. Colb]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1987]] - [[Linda Mischel]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1985]] - [[Noam Elkies]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1983]] - [[Philip Huang]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1981]] - [[Sami Walid Mnaymneh]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1978]] - [[Michael Eisenberg]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1976]] - [[Arthur Radin]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1972]] - [[Gerard E. Lynch]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1970]] - [[Eugene Hill]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1969]] - [[Michael Brown]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1967]] - [[Martin William Oster]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1966]] - [[Richard Mosack]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1964]] - [[Alan Blaer]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1962]] - [[Walter Hilse]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1961]] - [[John Vaio]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1960]] - [[Stanley Horowitz]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1958]] - [[Robert Chazan]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1957]] - [[Erich S. Gruen]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1956]] - [[Jonas Schultz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1955]] - [[Walter Karp]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1954]] - [[Henry Buchwald]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1950]] - [[Stephen Lloyd Whythe]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1949]] - [[Arthur F. Okun]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1948]] - [[Bernard W. Wishy]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1947]] - [[Joseph Kraft]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1943]] - [[Gil Turner]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1942]] - [[Herbert Deane]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1941]] - [[Robert Wallerstein]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1940]] - [[Harry Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1939]] - [[Abraham Genecin]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1938]] - [[David Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1937]] - [[Quentin Anderson]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1927]] - [[Jacques Barzun]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1926]] - [[Dwight Miner]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1925]] - [[Frederick Van Pelt Bryan]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1910]] - [[William Langer]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1882]] - [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] (also listed in some sources as salutatorian)&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1807]] - [[James Renwick]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1798]] - [[Clement Clarke Moore]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Valedictorians of [[SEAS]]==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]] - [[Yuan Jochen]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]] - [[Norases Vesdapunt]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Valedictorians of [[School of General Studies]]==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]] - [[Maxwell Bertolero]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]] - [[Kira Boesch]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Valedictorians of [[Barnard College]]==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1990]] - [[Sumati Murli]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== External links ==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.college.columbia.edu/facultyadmin/dus/honors Valedictorian and Salutatorian]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Valedictorians|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Definitions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Commencement]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Student awards]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Students by type]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Salutatorian&amp;diff=46476</id>
		<title>Salutatorian</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Salutatorian&amp;diff=46476"/>
		<updated>2013-05-25T01:25:18Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Delusionsofcontrol: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;A &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Salutatorian&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, typically judged to be the second most worthy degree candidate in his or her school&amp;#039;s respective graduating class by [[GPA]] and other measures, and, at least at [[Columbia College]], gives the speech at [[Class Day]], rather than the [[Valedictorian]]. A possible explanation for this may be that often the Valedictorian is just too much of a nerd, or more likely, it could be because Columbia College makes no academic distinction between the Salutatorian and the [[Valedictorian]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==List of [[Columbia College]] salutatorians==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2013]]: [[Yoshiaki Ko]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]]: [[Zachary Levine]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]]: [[Elizabeth Lyon]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2010]]: [[Jeff Spear]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2009]]: [[Mollie Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2008]]: [[Julia Kalow]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2007]]: [[Nick Klagge]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2006]]: [[Julia DiBenigno]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2005]]: [[Alexander Prescott-Couch]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2004]]: [[Tienmu Ma]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2003]]: [[Denise De Las Nueces]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2002]]: [[Daniel Immerwahr]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2001]]: [[Lauren Monacell]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1999]]: [[Dave Koenig]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1997]]: [[Aravind Adiga]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1996]]: [[Yair Galil]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1994]]: [[Emilie T. Hsu]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1992]]: [[Robert Miller]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1990]]: [[Ali Yegulalp]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1989]]: [[Leora Mogilner]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1987]]: [[Ilaria Rebay]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1982]]: [[George Stephanopoulos]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1981]]: [[Christopher Jackson]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1976]]: [[Tom Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1975]]: [[John Matelski]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1974]]: [[James Russell]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1972]]: [[Joseph D. “Jody” Pope]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1970]]: [[Lawrence Rosenwald]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1967]]: [[Allen Michael Spiegel]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1966]]: [[Paul Bogrow]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1963]]: [[Carl C. Chi]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1962]]: [[Peter E. Winn]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1961]]: [[Nathaniel Reichek]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1960]]: [[Neil Decter]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1958]]: [[Henry Solomon]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1957]]: [[Alvin Kass]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1956]]: [[David Emery Wolf]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1955]]: [[Leroy L. Constantin]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1954]]: [[Avrom H. Fleishman]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1950]]: [[Carl Hovde]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1949]]: [[Gene Hawes]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1947]]: [[Robert L. Bonaparte]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1943]]: [[Eugene Remmer]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1942]]: [[Seymour Ethan]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1941]]: [[Donald Dike]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1939]]: [[Jerome Kurshan]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1938]]: [[Alfred M. Duschatko]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1914]]: [[Benjamin Graham]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1882]]: [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] (also listed in some sources as valedictorian)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==List of [[SEAS]] Salutatorians ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[2011]]: [[Michael Wang]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==List of [[School of General Studies]] Salutatorians==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2013]]: &lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]]: [[Aliza Kathryn Minogue-Nachison]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]]: [[Elliot Shackelford]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Salutatorians|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Definitions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Commencement]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Student awards]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Students by type]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Salutatorian&amp;diff=46475</id>
		<title>Salutatorian</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Salutatorian&amp;diff=46475"/>
		<updated>2013-05-25T01:22:15Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Delusionsofcontrol: /* List of Columbia College salutatorians */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;A &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Salutatorian&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, judged to be the second most worthy degree candidate in his or her school&amp;#039;s respective graduating class by [[GPA]] and other measures, and, at least at [[Columbia College]], gives the speech at [[Class Day]], rather than the [[Valedictorian]]. A possible explanation for this may be that often the Valedictorian is just too much of a nerd. Or it might be that the terms used to be reversed; at least one &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Spec&amp;#039;&amp;#039; article noted that [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] was both &amp;quot;Greek salutatorian&amp;quot; of his year and &amp;quot;top of his class&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==List of [[Columbia College]] salutatorians==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2013]]: [[Yoshiaki Ko]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]]: [[Zachary Levine]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]]: [[Elizabeth Lyon]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2010]]: [[Jeff Spear]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2009]]: [[Mollie Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2008]]: [[Julia Kalow]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2007]]: [[Nick Klagge]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2006]]: [[Julia DiBenigno]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2005]]: [[Alexander Prescott-Couch]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2004]]: [[Tienmu Ma]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2003]]: [[Denise De Las Nueces]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2002]]: [[Daniel Immerwahr]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2001]]: [[Lauren Monacell]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1999]]: [[Dave Koenig]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1997]]: [[Aravind Adiga]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1996]]: [[Yair Galil]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1994]]: [[Emilie T. Hsu]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1992]]: [[Robert Miller]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1990]]: [[Ali Yegulalp]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1989]]: [[Leora Mogilner]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1987]]: [[Ilaria Rebay]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1982]]: [[George Stephanopoulos]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1981]]: [[Christopher Jackson]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1976]]: [[Tom Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1975]]: [[John Matelski]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1974]]: [[James Russell]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1972]]: [[Joseph D. “Jody” Pope]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1970]]: [[Lawrence Rosenwald]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1967]]: [[Allen Michael Spiegel]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1966]]: [[Paul Bogrow]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1963]]: [[Carl C. Chi]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1962]]: [[Peter E. Winn]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1961]]: [[Nathaniel Reichek]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1960]]: [[Neil Decter]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1958]]: [[Henry Solomon]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1957]]: [[Alvin Kass]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1956]]: [[David Emery Wolf]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1955]]: [[Leroy L. Constantin]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1954]]: [[Avrom H. Fleishman]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1950]]: [[Carl Hovde]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1949]]: [[Gene Hawes]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1947]]: [[Robert L. Bonaparte]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1943]]: [[Eugene Remmer]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1942]]: [[Seymour Ethan]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1941]]: [[Donald Dike]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1939]]: [[Jerome Kurshan]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1938]]: [[Alfred M. Duschatko]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1914]]: [[Benjamin Graham]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1882]]: [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] (also listed in some sources as valedictorian)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==List of [[SEAS]] Salutatorians ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[2011]]: [[Michael Wang]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==List of [[School of General Studies]] Salutatorians==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2013]]: &lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]]: [[Aliza Kathryn Minogue-Nachison]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]]: [[Elliot Shackelford]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Salutatorians|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Definitions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Commencement]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Student awards]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Students by type]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Delusionsofcontrol</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Salutatorian&amp;diff=46474</id>
		<title>Salutatorian</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Salutatorian&amp;diff=46474"/>
		<updated>2013-05-25T01:22:05Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Delusionsofcontrol: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;A &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Salutatorian&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, judged to be the second most worthy degree candidate in his or her school&amp;#039;s respective graduating class by [[GPA]] and other measures, and, at least at [[Columbia College]], gives the speech at [[Class Day]], rather than the [[Valedictorian]]. A possible explanation for this may be that often the Valedictorian is just too much of a nerd. Or it might be that the terms used to be reversed; at least one &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Spec&amp;#039;&amp;#039; article noted that [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] was both &amp;quot;Greek salutatorian&amp;quot; of his year and &amp;quot;top of his class&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==List of [[Columbia College]] salutatorians==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2013]] - [[Yoshiaki Ko]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]]: [[Zachary Levine]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]]: [[Elizabeth Lyon]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2010]]: [[Jeff Spear]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2009]]: [[Mollie Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2008]]: [[Julia Kalow]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2007]]: [[Nick Klagge]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2006]]: [[Julia DiBenigno]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2005]]: [[Alexander Prescott-Couch]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2004]]: [[Tienmu Ma]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2003]]: [[Denise De Las Nueces]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2002]]: [[Daniel Immerwahr]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2001]]: [[Lauren Monacell]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1999]]: [[Dave Koenig]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1997]]: [[Aravind Adiga]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1996]]: [[Yair Galil]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1994]]: [[Emilie T. Hsu]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1992]]: [[Robert Miller]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1990]]: [[Ali Yegulalp]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1989]]: [[Leora Mogilner]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1987]]: [[Ilaria Rebay]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1982]]: [[George Stephanopoulos]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1981]]: [[Christopher Jackson]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1976]]: [[Tom Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1975]]: [[John Matelski]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1974]]: [[James Russell]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1972]]: [[Joseph D. “Jody” Pope]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1970]]: [[Lawrence Rosenwald]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1967]]: [[Allen Michael Spiegel]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1966]]: [[Paul Bogrow]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1963]]: [[Carl C. Chi]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1962]]: [[Peter E. Winn]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1961]]: [[Nathaniel Reichek]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1960]]: [[Neil Decter]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1958]]: [[Henry Solomon]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1957]]: [[Alvin Kass]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1956]]: [[David Emery Wolf]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1955]]: [[Leroy L. Constantin]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1954]]: [[Avrom H. Fleishman]]&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1950]]: [[Carl Hovde]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1949]]: [[Gene Hawes]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1947]]: [[Robert L. Bonaparte]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1943]]: [[Eugene Remmer]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1942]]: [[Seymour Ethan]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1941]]: [[Donald Dike]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1939]]: [[Jerome Kurshan]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1938]]: [[Alfred M. Duschatko]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1914]]: [[Benjamin Graham]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1882]]: [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] (also listed in some sources as valedictorian)&lt;br /&gt;
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==List of [[SEAS]] Salutatorians ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[2011]]: [[Michael Wang]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==List of [[School of General Studies]] Salutatorians==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2013]]: &lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]]: [[Aliza Kathryn Minogue-Nachison]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]]: [[Elliot Shackelford]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Salutatorians|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Definitions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Commencement]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Student awards]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Students by type]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Valedictorian</title>
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&lt;div&gt;The &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Valedictorian&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; of [[Columbia College]] is selected each year by the faculty [[Committee on Honors, Awards, and Prizes]] each year along with the [[Salutatorian]]. While Valedictorian is the higher honor, at Columbia College only the Salutatorian gets to deliver a speech at [[Class Day]]. The Valedictorian gets to sit on stage and smile.&lt;br /&gt;
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Each year COHAP identifies no more than 15 students with GPAs over 4.00 on the basis of the &amp;quot;strength, breadth, depth, and rigor of the student&amp;#039;s academic achievements as well as on evidence of the student&amp;#039;s intellectual promise, character, and achievement outside the classroom.&amp;quot; Following the identification of this cohort, the departments in which the students majored are contacted and asked to submit evaluations of the identified students, which are used by the committee in selecting the winners.&lt;br /&gt;
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For a period, [[Rabi Scholars]] dominated the Valedictorian competition, having been selected as the Val in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007. This may have been a result of their tendency to be among the brightest science students accepted to Columbia (and therefore likely to take advantage of the GPA bias inherent in the hard sciences, where top students earn A+s, a grade typically not awarded by professors in &amp;#039;softer&amp;#039; disciplines), the close relationship with faculty that the scholars typically enjoy, or a combination of the two.&lt;br /&gt;
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The overwhelming next move for valedictorians in the last decade has been a [[PhD]], with every valedictorian since at least 2002 earning or having earned one.&lt;br /&gt;
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Because the qualifications for it are virtually synonymous, valedictorians usually also receive the [[Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Valedictorians of [[Columbia College]]==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2013]] - [[Leah Friedman]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]] - [[Zachary Brill]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]] - [[Margot Lazow]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2010]] - [[Arianne Richard]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2009]] - [[Emily Clader]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2008]] - [[Maxim Pinkovskiy]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2007]] - [[Claire Lackner]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2006]] - [[Jaehee Kim]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2005]] - [[Ramsey McGlazer]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2004]] - [[Jacob Barandes]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2003]] - [[Max Lipyanskiy]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2002]] - [[Kareen Rozen]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[2000]] - [[Brandon Dammerman]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1999]] - [[Joyce Marie Kassouf]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1998]] - [[Zita Peterlin]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1996]] - [[Elena Khazanova]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1992]] - [[Scott Feldman]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1991]] - [[David Brafman]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1989]] - [[Shai Shaham]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1988]] - [[Sherry F. Colb]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1987]] - [[Linda Mischel]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1985]] - [[Noam Elkies]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1983]] - [[Philip Huang]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1981]] - [[Sami Walid Mnaymneh]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1978]] - [[Michael Eisenberg]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1976]] - [[Arthur Radin]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1972]] - [[Gerard E. Lynch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1970]] - [[Eugene Hill]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1969]] - [[Michael Brown]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1967]] - [[Martin William Oster]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1966]] - [[Richard Mosack]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1964]] - [[Alan Blaer]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1962]] - [[Walter Hilse]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1961]] - [[John Vaio]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1960]] - [[Stanley Horowitz]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1958]] - [[Robert Chazan]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1957]] - [[Erich S. Gruen]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1956]] - [[Jonas Schultz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1955]] - [[Walter Karp]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1954]] - [[Henry Buchwald]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1950]] - [[Stephen Lloyd Whythe]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1949]] - [[Arthur F. Okun]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1948]] - [[Bernard W. Wishy]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1947]] - [[Joseph Kraft]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1943]] - [[Gil Turner]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1942]] - [[Herbert Deane]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1941]] - [[Robert Wallerstein]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1940]] - [[Harry Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1939]] - [[Abraham Genecin]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1938]] - [[David Schwartz]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1937]] - [[Quentin Anderson]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1927]] - [[Jacques Barzun]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1926]] - [[Dwight Miner]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1925]] - [[Frederick Van Pelt Bryan]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1910]] - [[William Langer]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1882]] - [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] (also listed in some sources as salutatorian)&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1807]] - [[James Renwick]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[1798]] - [[Clement Clarke Moore]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Valedictorians of [[SEAS]]==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]] - [[Yuan Jochen]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]] - [[Norases Vesdapunt]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Valedictorians of [[School of General Studies]]==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2012]] - [[Maxwell Bertolero]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[2011]] - [[Kira Boesch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Valedictorians of [[Barnard College]]==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[1990]] - [[Sumati Murli]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== External links ==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.college.columbia.edu/facultyadmin/dus/honors Valedictorian and Salutatorian]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Valedictorians|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Definitions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Commencement]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Student awards]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Students by type]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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